JazzTrax Guest

Saxophonist Paul Taylor

Talk about bi-coastal....Paul Taylor has lived in Las Vegas since leaving his hometown of Denver for College at UNLV, but he flies to New York to record half his album and then to L.A. to record the other half, using Barry Eastmond to produce his NY work and Rex Rideout his L.A. So bi-coastal that as he flew home from NY, after finishing the project's lead song, Barry added subtle Michael McDonald like vocals from Billy Cliff. Art Good has to tell Paul the name of his singer on the show this weekend because Paul never saw, nor met the man singing to his saxophone. That's the way music goes these days. It's the Debut to America of Burnin'. Paul Taylor is in the JazzTrax Studio to introduce his Brand New, just before he steps off a Boat in Avalon to do some more burnin' in the Avalon Ballroom....looking out to sea, the same Ballroom where after being hired for just one Gig by Jeff Lorber in 1994, Keiko and Kazu Matsui who had sailed over to attend the JazzTrax Festival, walked up to Art Good in the back of the Casino Ballroom inquiring who the saxman was on stage with Lorber.... Art arranged a backstage meeting at JazzTrax and away went Paul Taylor's career!

Archive Album

1892 Kenny G Self Titled Debut

Speaking of "away went somebody's career" (and Jeff Lorber attached to this one too!). Kenny Gorelic was the saxophonist in the late 70's, early 80's Jeff Lorber Fusion. This week's JazzTrax Archives Album comes from 27 years ago when Jeff Lorber produced the self titled solo debut of his saxophonist who decided to cut his last name to just "G". Some 4 years before anyone knew that a song called "Songbird" would propel Kenny G into the best selling instrumentalist of all time. This week's archives are where that all began.

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